This Lullaby is only a few words, a simple run of chords, quiet here in this spare room, but you can hear it, hear it, wherever you may go, even if I let you down, this lullaby plays on.

Like life isn't complicated enough. You should at least be able to follow the signs.

If there's one thing I've learned in the last few months, it's that sometimes you just have to close your eyes and jump.

Nothing happens for ages, and then all the changes come at once.

Yeah. I mean, acknowledging is easy. Something happened or it didn't. But understanding... that's where things get sticky.

I bet you can't eat ten bananas!" "I bet you're right.

The worst part was that I had things I wanted to tell my mother, too many to count, but none of them would go down so easy. She'd been through too much, between my siters-I could not add to the weight. So instead, I did my best to balance it out, bit by bit, word by word, story by story, even if none of them were true.